GENIAL VERBS

Imagen de Rebecca Siegel en Flickr. Licencia CC

I liked the Genially task proposed by Mª Ángeles Pérez Salas in her blog English is Fun!. It consisted in a final revision before the 1st Term Exam. The final result was quite good and it was a source of inspiration for my last task in this course.

I thought about doing a final revision of verb tenses for my students at Intermediate B1. In fact, in the first unit of the course, a wide summary of all verb tenses is made, and, of course, at this level, all the students must show a good command of the main verb tenses in English.

The learning objectives were, then, to revvise for the main verb tenses in English and to check students' knowledge by doing interactive presentations in group.

For this reason, students were divided in groups of threes and I proposed a list of tenses so that they had to prepare a presentation that must include the form and use of these tenses, together with appropriate exemples and some addtional questions to test their classmates' understanding.

They could choose the format they were going to use in Genially ( interactive image, presentation, video presentation...) and during the first class they should prepare the materials they wanted to use (grammar explanations, examples, comprehension questions....). During the second and third sessions they  were preparing the Genially Project and finally, during the last session, the oral expositions were made.

I think this is a quite effective way to get students' attention and a motivating skill to revise the main points in a class. Obviously, the group members are reinforcing the specific grammatical point they had to work on and the listeners, are revising this same point. A double successful objective.

I upload the interactive image the group of students dealing with Present Perfect vs. Past Simple prepared.